44:24 Why do you look the other way, 1
and ignore 2 the way we are oppressed and mistreated? 3
81:9 There must be 4 no other 5 god among you.
You must not worship a foreign god.
82:7 Yet you will die like mortals; 6
you will fall like all the other rulers.” 7
85:10 Loyal love and faithfulness meet; 8
deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss. 9
1 tn Heb “Why do you hide your face?” The idiom “hide the face” can mean “ignore” (see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9) or carry the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 30:7; 88:14).
2 tn Or “forget.”
3 tn Heb “our oppression and our affliction.”
4 tn The imperfect verbal forms in v. 9 have a modal function, expressing what is obligatory.
5 tn Heb “different”; “illicit.”
6 tn Heb “men.” The point in the context is mortality, however, not maleness.
sn You will die like mortals. For the concept of a god losing immortality and dying, see Isa 14:12-15, which alludes to a pagan myth in which the petty god “Shining One, son of the Dawn,” is hurled into Sheol for his hubris.
7 tn Heb “like one of the rulers.” The comparison does not necessarily imply that they are not rulers. The expression “like one of” can sometimes mean “as one of” (Gen 49:16; Obad 11) or “as any other of” (Judg 16:7, 11).
8 tn The psalmist probably uses the perfect verbal forms in v. 10 in a dramatic or rhetorical manner, describing what he anticipates as if it were already occurring or had already occurred.
9 sn Deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss. The psalmist personifies these abstract qualities to emphasize that God’s loyal love and faithfulness will yield deliverance and peace for his people.